A poem by Alan Dugan
The river brought down
dead horses, dead men
and military debris,
indicative of war
or official acts upstream,
but it went by, it all
goes by, that is the thing
about the river. Then
a soldier on a log
went by. He seemed drunk
and we asked him Why
had he and this junk
come down to us so
from the past upstream.
”Friends,” he said, ”the great
Battle of Granicus
has just been won
by all of the Greeks except
the Lacedaemonians and
myself: this is a joke
between me and a man
named Alexander, whom
all of you ba-bas
will hear of as a god.”
A few random poems:
- Aeolian Harp by William Allingham
- Вера Звягинцева – Всхожу на мост
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка для шахтера-друга про шахтерки, чуни и каменный уголь
- Song—A Health to them that’s awa by Robert Burns
- St. Andrew’s Bay poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб с голодом справиться и с разрухой-дурой (Главполитпросвет)
- Юлия Друнина – Есть праздники, что навсегда с тобой
- An English Breeze by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Нина Гаген-Торн – День мой в труде тяжелом
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- On The Death Of The Bishop Of Ely. Anno Aet. 17. (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E’e:
- Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
- A Good Knight In Prison by William Morris
- A Death Song by William Morris
- We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Twins by Vinko Kalinić
- To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
- Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
- Raw Silk by Vinita Agrawal
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.